Ukrainian officials said on Monday that their forces had fired at North Korean soldiers in combat for the first time since their deployment by Russia to its western Kursk region.
乌克兰官员周一表示，自俄罗斯向俄西部库尔斯克州部署朝鲜士兵以来，乌克兰军队首次在战斗中向朝鲜士兵开火。
The clashes mark the first direct intervention by a foreign army since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, as well as an expansion of what was already the largest land war in Europe since the second world war.
这些冲突标志着，自2022年俄罗斯开始全面入侵乌克兰以来，外国军队的首次直接干预，同时也标志着自第二次世界大战以来欧洲规模最大的陆地战争的扩大。
“The first military units of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] have already come under fire in Kursk,” Andriy Kovalenko, Ukraine’s top counter-disinformation official within the national security council, said on Telegram. A senior Ukrainian intelligence official confirmed the military engagement to the Financial Times but declined to provide further details.
乌克兰国家安全委员会最高反虚假信息官员安德烈•科瓦连科(Andriy Kovalenko)在Telegram上说：“朝鲜民主主义人民共和国的第一批军事部队已经在库尔斯克遭到射击。”一名乌克兰高级情报官员向英国《金融时报》证实了这次军事接触，但拒绝提供更多细节。
In Kyiv, foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said he had discussed with his visiting German counterpart Annalena Baerbock the “need for decisive action” in response to North Korea’s deepening involvement in the war.
乌克兰外交部长安德里•西比哈(Andrii Sybiha)在基辅表示，他已与到访的德国外长安娜莱娜•贝尔博克(Annalena Baerbock)讨论了“采取果断行动”应对朝鲜不断深入的战争介入的必要性。